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I started my new merv build. I still got a good amount to order for the build though. I got the trans together though. HR case with HR gears all rolling on some yellow shield boca ceramics, held together with the rc screws kit an topped with a strc motor plate. Modded the case for the gears. The gears were epoxied to their respective shaft then lubed with P.T.F.E. grease in an attempt to keep them from grenading like my last set. All the hardware got some loc-tite love. Im thinking about trying to find some shims to take out the back and forth play of the shafts in the trans. Plus i wanna open it up again soon to see if the ptfe held onto the gears, spun the trans input up with my dremel to 10,000 rpm. If not I got a few more lubes to try.

Had that happen to me too before. The little gear exploded, its cuz of the walls on the gear are too thin the bit of play in the hex and heat. If they made the center gear/shaft one piece then they'd be bullet proof. That's why I tried epoxying them this time around. It'll be a little while before I can see if it hold up though, still in the ordering process. Those gave out with your neu I assume?

Can't wait to see it Mrmerv! I'm going to pick up some diff gears and 50K wt diff oil tomorrow, rebuild the rear diff and add the oil to the front diff. Bashing my merv and my friend's summit, and filming for my next short film will continue. I plan on making this one bad-a! I'm looking foward to filming/editing and sharing it with all of yall!

I've gotten quite a few comments about that I'm going to have to post a pic. I use to do a lot of mt biking n I have a directional in the front and a multi traction in the rear. If you flip the rear tire around one direction is for wet muck n the other for dry pack. I noticed enough of a difference under my own power to know it worked, very well so I keep my fronts directed n my back aggressive. I have center diff with a mild split so it works well with my sensored motor. Will post pic this evening.

Started to tear it down for a new chassis, bulkheads, body mounts, body posts, differentials, and battery doors... but ended up just water proofing the BB 390 servo, shortening the ********* 60 ESC motor wires by about 2 inches, bridging the switch pads on the circuit board of the ESC -eliminating the switch, adding a shim to the front and rear differentials, replacing front body mount and posts, replacing just the rear body posts, checking the oil level in the YR shocks -only one was low, topping of the front, rear, and center differential, putting shrink wrap on the axle shafts to cover the slide, and lastly adjusting the HR knuckles.

I have a few chunks missing out of the rear diff ring gear, and the pinion is wore enough to be sharp... lets see how much longer it will last with an extra shim in there.

Still, this is my original differential after well over 250 2S packs and probably close to 30 3S speed runs.

The old parts are wore... but not wore enough to cause issues yet. Once they do, I will replace them. Until then I will keep running them.

Tore down the diffs, cleaned them up, reshimed, fresh greased. And working on putting a new ********* V2 ESC, and a ******* 4 pole, 4400kv, 380 can size motor. Just waiting on the pinion I want to get here now. Hopefully I'll be able to run the tires I want to ( Yokohama Geolanders on 2.2 Clawz wide offset )

changed the rear shock fluid on my merv to 45wt with tan springs an modest preload, happy with the rough tarmac perfomance hope to give it a test run at SRS on friday's open practice.
on a none traxxas note tested my mini T for the first time in over 4 years that made me happy aswell

Beautiful looking Truck, I finally got my merv out for a drive to stretch its legs, wholly eff its fast. Was soooo not a good idea for my 6 year old as a first buggy. Unfortunately she loves it way more than our stampeded and said she much prefers it small because she's smaller, allafter I ordereded her a 1/10 30th anniversary grave digger for cmas

OH well, was pretty impressed, but have a lot to learn with rgards to driving it and tuning it, had a hard time keeping it rubber side down.

Not by smashing into anything, but give it a pounding to see what gives. I already have a stripped rear ring gear & hoppin up most stuff so what the heck.

Aside from the diff nothing gave out. Did jumps off a ramp on concrete, not high, about 4 foot nice flat landings, a few nose up, a few nose down, a backflip. All gravy, some wheelies, stripped gear noise aside all held up, flipped it rolled it over and over and all is good after inspection...

boiled my glued set of wheels an slapped a couple onto my first half of axial AX08061 beadlocks. Have a small nylon "bushing" on the axle to make up the shaft size difference between mini revo 4mm an XR10 7mm